June 2013
4 posts
Step 310: There are very few perfect jobs. For now, look for a good one.
A reader asks: 23 year old + A.A, B.F.A, A.A.S degrees = lack of job satisfaction. Just can’t seem to figure it out, what is one to do? Can’t reasonably be a fulltime student for the rest of my life. So, what should one do to ensure finding the right career that ensures job satisfaction most of all and a comfortable living?
Bad news first: the answer to your question will not be in this (or any!) blog entry. “How do I find a satisfying, lucrative career that suits my needs?” is akin to “Where will I encounter my soulmate?” Some false premises are at play.
Some people find their soulmate. And other people find jobs that pay them $150,000 a year to fight the good fight and still have time for rich and satisfying home lives.
But … that does not happen in your 20s. If ever. So for right now, the real question is what is most important to you? Is it money? Pursuing your passion? Doing something you’re uniquely good at? Something that pays the bills but doesn’t eat your life?
Well, two out of three isn’t bad.
May 2013
19 posts
The internet.
- Josh: How did people work before the internet?
- Me: I remember, it was horrible. We had internet but you had to have special "permission" to use it.
- Does anyone else remember those days? Gawd, no wonder I was sometimes bored to tears in my first job out of college.
“Every time we get a car, this place turns into a whore house.”
—Don Draper
“Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can’t buy more hours. Scientists can’t invent new minutes. And you can’t save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you’ve wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.”
—Denis Waitley
The Thought Bubble: Hipsters Across Nation Prepare Remarks As To Why New "Arrested Development" Episodes Aren't As Good As The Old Ones →
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With Saturday’s release of the latest trailer for the upcoming season of “Arrested Development” on Netflix, hipsters across the nation began drafting statements declaring these episodes just aren’t as good as the show’s previous three-season run on FOX. Popular reasons include the cast and crew…
Adulting: Some additional very important secret GChat (GEECH!) emoticons →
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So we already discussed the crab — V.v.V (or, as alert reader penguinperverson put it, an emoticrab)— but here are some more. For science. And productivity. Scientific productivity.
\m/ is the devil’s horns, for congratulatory or Satan-summoning purposes.+/’\ is a cowbell that rings. Because,…
